During routine aerial operations over the greater Tsavo Conservation Area at the end of last year, the DSWT’s pilot, Nick Trent, and the DSWT’s Tsavo Mobile Veterinary Unit headed by KWS Field Veterinarian Dr Poghon, went to great lengths to save the life of an injured baby elephant.
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On the 22nd of October, Angela was called by a staff member from Ziwani Voyager Lodge located in Tsavo West National Park with news of a young lone orphaned elephant that had been seen hanging around close to the lodge for a number of days.
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2013 has seen thousands of people visiting the DSWT’s elephant nursery in Nairobi’s National Park to meet our elephant orphans as their human Keepers and family support them in their early years of life, preparing them for their next journey of rehabilitation in Tsavo East National Park.
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What Nelson Mandela, a Giant amongst African Leaders, gave the world, was an example of tolerance and forgiveness, so when the Trust received a newborn elephant orphaned in Botswana, who had spent time in South Africa before coming to us, we named him “Madiba” in honour of Nelson Mandela.
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